JD.COM INC (JD)

JD.com, Inc. (aka Jingdong Retail Group) is a Chinese company specializing in four areas:

• marketplace - best known for the popularity of its own marketplace of the same name;
• retail trade within the country,
• e-commerce,
• logistics.

The expertise of the company is not limited to this and is developing in other areas - from marketing services to consumer finance and asset management services for investors. Since 2012, it has been actively developing foreign trade, both by selling locally produced goods (mainly consumer electronics) abroad, and by facilitating the supply of European and American products to the Chinese domestic market.

JD.com has successfully invested in foreign companies (the company's largest foreign investment was $397 mn in the British-Portuguese luxury clothing boutique Farfetch) and has attracted investments from foreign institutional giants such as Google and Walmart. It has a strategic partnership with the latter. Inside China, Tencent, one of the largest investment/venture companies in the world, has been investing in it.

At the end of 2021, the company ranks 15th in the list of leading companies in China according to the Fortune Global 500, and it has risen from 366th to 59th place in the list of the world's largest corporations in just six years.

How liquid are JD shares?

JD.com shares were positively affected by the pandemic:

• since the beginning of the pandemic (since March 2020), the price has increased by 127%,
• over the past year (since February 2021) the price has increased by 29.72%.

However, recently their liquidity has also been justified by the general interest of global investors in Chinese assets caused by the market decline - in January 2022 alone, the net inflow of funds to mainland China amounted to $16.6 bn, in December 2021 - $11 bn.

How to buy JD shares?

The assets of the Chinese giant are traded on the largest US exchange NASDAQ (ticker JD), which can be accessed from the MT5 Global trading account.